I started this blog last year to chronicle my dealings with pain, crochet, and disability. Then I let it slide for a while. With the latest health challenges, I thought I'd start updating this again so interested parties, like my family in KC, could follow what is going on.
Backstory: I wound up in the hospital around labor day 2006 for intractable pain. I had already applied for disability, and it had been denied with the conclusion I could still do "substantial work" if I minimized my use of stairs. As a matter of fact, except for very short distances in my one-level home, I'm in a wheelchair. I'll be sure and avoid those stairs, though!
In late October, I woke up on a Sunday in the ICU. I'd been admitted on Thursday (Oct 26) with Acute Renal Failure. My memory stops some time before then -- I remember feeling wrong, but apparently I became completely incoherent and the guys (hubby and housemate) took me to the ER. My kidneys did not return completely to normal, so any time I get ill, I run a risk of kidney problems again. It's definitely something that I'll be discussing with the surgeon on Monday.
I just called my disability attorney with the latest two diagnoses. I'm going to get a copy of the breast cancer diagnosis (and eventually, the back diagnoses) and send them in to the attorney. Unfortunately, the chances of me getting an administrative decision and a disability payout before the hearing that has been scheduled is marginal.
More information as I have it -- probably Monday after the visit to the surgeon. I may have researched links between now and then.
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It isn't, yet. The lawyer tells me that I'll get a notice of the hearing about 380 days after the filing of the appeal, which was in July. So I'm figuring I'll hear when it is in late summer or fall.
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